Camping at the lake

Backing up to the first weekend in August. This is the only real "Lazy days of summer" that happened. The rest really can be under the heading of "crazy busy"!
We did this last year, and all voted that we should go again this year, so here we are. I didn't take any other pictures than at the lake, the others were taken by someone else. Our camp spot this year was not picturesque, so I guess it didn't inspire me to take any there!


We were loaned a trailer this year to use! My kind of camping....Jeanne's inlaws had a trailer also, & the others had tents that were down in the trees behind us.

Trey & Kyrie heading to the beach!

I LOVE jet-skiing. Both watching others on it, and riding it myself.
Totally random in no particular order.....







Beach art & fun in the sun





Meshayla turned the little girls into mermaids!






Derek burried Morgen in the sand, only the top of his head was sticking out. (See the hat in the left hand corner?) The guys had to help pull to get him back out.


And other random Misc moments





The guys cooking hamburgers over the fire-pit, a bonfire Friday evening for marshmellows & smores, Kyrie & Trey lovin', & me getting a belated birthday present....50 of them no less from my daughter's inlaws!

Cutting down --(33 of 52)

I love my longaberger mugs! I refill them until my pot is empty. They keep me company a good part of the day.
Yesterday I got a package in the mail, and to my delight this cool coffee mug is what I found inside!
Anyway, as I was saying....I drink alot of coffee and think I should probably cut back. I thought this was a great solution! Just one cup a day. What do you think?!




Incidentally, the package had no return address or name of the sender on it, but I had a pretty good clue from the shipping label!!
Thanks friend, You know me pretty well :D

Lazy days of summer

• Beans from the garden to pick & freeze every couple days
• One batch of cauliflower from my garden
• LOTS of onions from my garden
• LOTS of peppers from my garden
• The tomatoes have been a bit slow, and are rather small but they are DELICIOUS!
  
• My flower gardens do overflow with weeds
• The 2nd motel installation in a month is done
• Too many things going on I haven't even got to have my grandkids here this summer
• I went from posting an average of every other day to once a week
• At least the "52 weeks" challenge kept me posting at least one x a week
• We actually got a 4 day "vacation" all together that wasn't convention
  
• I can't believe how painful a pulled/strained leg muscle is, how much it slowed me down, and how long it takes to heal
• I have never in my life taken more than 2 "Tylenol" at a time for pain killers, and I was taking 4 Motrin every day (night) and at least 2 during the day
  
• I know it's finally on the mend when it's back to my foot hurting more than my thigh.
• School starts this coming Monday. One Senior, a 9th grader, a 6th grader, a 5th grader and a 3rd grader.
• The 9th grader & 6th grader are homeschooling this year.
  
• Leon went to get a pickup load of corn this morning
• I'm going to be freezing corn all day
• My kids are going to hate me (AGAIN) because they will have to help
• Next winter they will beg for me to cook corn, because "It's SO good mom..."
• This is so boring, unproductive and I'm getting off of here right now to go clean my kitchen & get ready to make a mess
• How can such a busy life sound so boring when I try to write it out?
  

31 and 32 of 52 weeks

The end of July we celebrated my Grandpa's 95 birthday. He is in a nursing home and has Alheizmers. Sometimes it was a bit confusing & overwhelming for him, but mostly he seemed to enjoy it. He dosen't remember our names, and only remembers some faces, but if we tell him we're "his kids", then it's all great!
Grandpa & Grandma had 5 boys. These two are the only ones left. They both got married around the time or after I did, so their kids, my only cousins are my kids's ages. I thought it was fun to see this picture of us together, I think we definitely look related! Grandpa has 4 other grandchildren, including my brother.

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Meshayla's home! Last week on Thursday we went to Denver to pick her up at the airport. The 3 younger kids got to come too. They were so excited to see her, and I *think* Meshayla was quite happy to see them too!






Here's mom and dad with our girl back after 2 months! (I have NO clue why my mouth is open in both of these pictures!)
After we finally got out of the airport (minus luggage....) we went to Sidney to our daughters, then Friday we went camping at Ogallala for the weekend. Next week coming up.....beach play and jet-skiing!!